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25-6737 Clyde Pontefract v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending IFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act equitable-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-standing standing 1. When a Constitutional Right is being denied against a federal prisoner of the First Amendment Access-to~Court claim and he ask for Equitable Relief…
25-6646 Noah P. Healy v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision article-iii judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether an Article III court may affirm an administrative agency decision while dismissing unrebutted record evidence as "unpersuasive, " without pro…
25-761 Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-constraints medicare price-controls separation-of-powers The Inflation Reduction Act grants the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") unprecedented and unfettered authority to impose price contr…
25-579 Department of the Air Force, et al. v. Prutehi Guahan Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending administrative-procedure-act agency-action cooperative-federalism environmental-review hazardous-waste resource-conservation-recovery-act 1. Whether the federal government's submission to a state or territorial regulator of an application to renew a RCRA permit is "final agency action" t…
25A539 Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. First Circuit 2025-11-07 Application Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act appropriations executive-discretion judicial-injunction nutrition-programs separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25-540 Beyond Nuclear, Inc. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2025-11-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-licensing congressional-action judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Do the Administrative Procedure Act and the constitutional separation of powers doctrine prohibit an agency from issuing a license conditioned on Cong…
25A269 Department of State, et al. v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-08 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion congressional-appropriations executive-branch funding-restrictions judicial-review Question not identified.
25-252 Jalina Fluellen v. David Krasn, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Rehearing administrative-procedure-act article-iii-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure rule-5.1 1. Whether the District Court violated Rule 5.1 and due process by dismissing a constitutional challenge to Local Rule 26.1 without notifying the stat…
25A227 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Global Health Council, et al. District of Columbia 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act executive-power impoundment separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Question not identified.
25-5332 Francisco Melgar Cabrera v. Christian Lepe, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act detention-review extradition-treaty federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation WHETHER: EXTRADITION TREATY VIOLATIONS ARE COGNIZABLE UNDER 28 USC §2241(c)(3) RATHER THAN UNDER §2255(a); A PERSON HELD IN CUSTODY IN VIOLATION OF A…
25-162 Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-11 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause 1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a…
25-149 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision arbitrary-capricious patent-challenge patent-trial-appeal-board "It is a fundamental principle of administrative law that agencies must treat like cases alike." Grayscale Invs., LLC v. SEC, 82 F.4th 1239, 1242 (D.C…
25-28 Claude Franklin Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-filing federal-register income-tax jurisdiction tax-court QUESTION 1: Is the IRS required by 5 U.S.C. §552(a)(l) to publish in the Federal Register the places where federal income tax returns are to be filed?…
24-7492 Tony Chaney v. Chicago Housing Authority Seventh Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion due-process fair-hearing housing-rights Whether [H]ousing agencies that receives funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs has the authority to unilaterally deny residents the…
24A1106 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. American Federation of Government Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-16 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act executive-order federal-workforce injunction reduction-in-force separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-1161 RunItOneTime LLC, fka Maverick Gaming LLC v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act circuit-conflict federal-agency-action judicial-review rule-19 sovereign-immunity Whether Rule 19 requires dismissal of APA suits challenging federal agency action whenever a nonparty who benefited from that action asserts sovereign…
24A1079 Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security v. Svitlana Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete Amici (7) administrative-procedure-act categorical-parole executive-discretion immigration-and-nationality-act judicial-review parole-revocation Question not identified.
24A1064 Robert Mayfield, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act exempt-status fair-labor-standards-act legislative-vesting-clause minimum-salary-requirements nondelegation-doctrine Question not identified.
24-1102 Citizens for Constitutional Integrity v. Census Bureau, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-24 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-action congressional-apportionment mandamus-act voting-rights To apportion U.S. House of Representatives seats, the 14th Amendment, Section 2 (the Reduction Clause), and 2 U.S.C 6 require an additional procedure …
24-6889 Benjamin LaCount, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act due-process judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction va-procedural-violations veterans-judicial-review-act Does the Veterans' Judicial Review Act (VJRA) bar judicial review of procedural due process and Administrative Procedure Act (APA) violations by the D…
24A804 Maverick Gaming LLC v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-19 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act federal-rule-19 indian-gaming required-party sovereign-immunity tribal-state-compacts Question not identified.
24A674 Executive Office for Immigration Review, et al. v. Al Otro Lado, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act asylum-seekers border-policy class-action-relief immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law Question not identified.
24-6243 A. K. Anderson v. Miguel A. Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure-act circuit-conflict civil-rights driver's-license due-process Did the Ninth Circuit conflict with a ruling from the Eighth Circuit as to whether his Appeal with the Department of Education should have proceeded, …
24-693 Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-penalties judicial-review regulatory-compliance Through a series of Notices of Non-Compliance and related communications, Respondent Consumer Product Safety Commission determined (a) that Petitioner…
24A549 James Harper v. Daniel I. Werfel, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-05 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act cryptocurrency financial-privacy fourth-amendment john-doe-summons third-party-doctrine Question not identified.
24-548 Arbor Global Strategies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-decision inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board prosecutorial-function separation-of-functions Whether Section 554(d) prohibits the same Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel from instituting and deciding inter partes review, because institution i…
24A397 Jake's Fireworks, Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-action consumer-product-safety final-agency-action judicial-review regulatory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A303 Arbor Global Strategies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board separation-of-powers Question not identified.
24-300 Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Shane Jeffries, in His Official Capacity as Ochoco National Forest Supervisor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-action deliberative-materials judicial-review record-review The Administrative Procedure Act provides that courts "shall review the whole record" in adjudicating agency action. 5 U.S.C. § 706. Lower courts are …
24-129 Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, et al. v. Smithsonian Institution District of Columbia 2024-08-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing benin-bronzes enslaved-africans ethical-return-policy long-term-loan mootness public-hearing-process repatriation smithsonian-institution subject-matter-jurisdiction title-transfer Whether descendants of enslaved Africans in the Un Whether the courts below improperly held the matte 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction exists over the Smithsonian Institution's repatriation of artworks to a foreign state under an Ethical Return p…
24A7 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-determination employment-status judicial-review tenth-circuit worker-classification Question not identified.
23-1361 William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split disclosure-refusal freedom-of-information-act internal-revenue-code judicial-review tax-returns taxpayer-disclosure Is § 6103 a specific statute displacing FOIA, so that the remedy for taxpayers to compel disclosure of their returns and return information is a suit …
23-1353 Kansas, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-rule-making collusive-settlements federal-government federal-government-defense intervention litigation-strategy ninth-circuit standing sue-and-settle Did the Ninth Circuit err when it denied States with sufficient interests the ability to intervene as defendants after the federal government stopped …
23-1348 In Re Charles Simon 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act all-writs-act civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel Two Page Order denied and rubber the Mandamus All Writs Act 28 U.S.C. section 1651, consolidated with the appeal, ign…
23-1352 Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-27 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires 1. Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action. 2. Whether the…
23-1292 Judy A. Brannberg v. Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al. Colorado 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act antitrust charter-school-regulation constitutional-review domestic-terrorism due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure injunctive-relief school-district-authority whistle-blower The questions presented are: Question One: Whether pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 65; Rules 22 and 23 of this Court; the All Writs …
23-1059 Peter Williams v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-petition administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act clean-air-act due-process environmental-protection-agency epa-action petition-for-review standing statutory-interpretation timeliness 1. Whether Williams could have petitioned for review using non-record rebuttal evidence within 60 days of EPA's initial action. 2. Whether the Act re…
23-927 National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof copyright-royalty copyright-royalty-board first-amendment rate-setting religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act webcasting The Copyright Royalty Board sets default royalty rates for webcasting sound recordings. Recently, the Board adopted rates requiring noncommercial reli…
23-903 David E. Stone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act bundled-mortgages executive-branch executive-branch-discretion income-tax internal-revenue-code mortgage-taxation sovereign-immunity tax-collection Whether the Commissioner, as an arm of the executive branch, has absolute discretion and sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedure Act to …
23-871 Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fair-warning flavored-products food-and-drug-administration marketing-applications Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev…
23-799 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems ends-products fda-regulation marketing-authorization reliance-interests youth-access Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev…
23-548 Jenny Schieber, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-discretion dispute-resolution executive-agreement international-executive-agreements judicial-review statutory-interpretation substantive-statute 1. Whether agency adjudication rendered pursuant to an international executive agreement is subject to judicial review under the APA where: (a) Congre…
23-533 Jack Jordan v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure due-process federal-appeals fraud judicial-misconduct misconduct rule-60-motion standing summary-action summary-affirmance 1. Whether a US. Court of Appeals may preclude appellant's filing of any brief and presentation of any oral argument by merely asserting the vague con…
23-395 Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Amici (3) abortion abortion-medication administrative-procedure-act drug-regulation fda fda-approval generic-drugs medical-safety mifepristone subpart-h 1. Whether Cross-Petitioners' challenge to FDA's 2000 mifepristone approval is timely. 2. Whether FDA's 2000 approval of mifepristone under Subpart H…
23-5680 Daniel Villa v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action direct-evidence due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 whistleblower whistleblower-award Section 704 of the Administrative Procedure Act subject's final agency actions to mandatory judicial review if no other adequate remedy exists in any …
23-236 Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Judgment Issued administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-deference article-iii-standing circuit-split fda-drug-approval judicial-review national-scope preliminary-injunction In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Danco's drug Mifeprex for termination of early pregnancy based on the agency's expert judgmen…
23-5545 Robert K. Decker v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Seventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure-act amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pleadings pro-se-litigant Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in the decision to Affirm the United States District Court's decision in dismissing the case. I. Did th…
23-135 Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), which bars judicial review of "[t]he determination ... whether to institute an inter partes review," applies even when no …
23-115 Fathi Elltaif Saad Elldakli, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action citizenship-and-immigration-services final-agency-action immigration-law judicial-review removal-proceedings status-adjustment Whether a status-adjustment decision by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services constitutes final agency action within the meaning of t…
23A82 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Jennifer Vanderstok, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Presumed Complete Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act atf-regulation firearm-definition frame-or-receiver ghost-guns second-amendment Question not identified.
22-1220 Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto I. Have the numerous departures of the Supreme Court's Alice/Mayo jurisprudence by the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (hereinafter "the Feder…
22-1158 Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process Does agency rulemaking itself, like the STA Redress Process, constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110, therefore stripping the district court …
22-1112 Avail Vapor, LLC, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration Fourth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious evidence-standard evidentiary-standard fda fda-regulation marketing-authorization premarket-applications tobacco-product-regulation tobacco-products In 2016, FDA extended its jurisdiction over "tobacco products" under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to electronic nicotine delivery system…
22-1106 Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Colorado State Board of Education, et al. Colorado 2023-05-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act charter-school-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review obstruction-of-justice retaliation school-safety state-board-decision Whether the last sentence of section Colorado Revised Statutes C.R.S. § 22-30.5-108(3)(d) —"The decision of the state board shall be final and not sub…
22-1008 Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Eighth Circuit 2023-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (15) administrative-procedure-act adverse-effect adversely-affected agency-action agency-rule circuit-split legal-wrong standing statute-of-limitations Petitioner Corner Post, Inc. is a convenience store and truck stop in North Dakota that first opened for business in 2018. In 2021, Corner Post sued t…
22-1001 NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent-construction patent-preamble patent-validity 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that results from the Board's sua sponte construction of a…
22-816 The School of the Ozarks, Inc., dba College of the Ozarks v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act article-iii-standing enforcement executive-order fair-housing-act gender-identity notice-and-comment regulatory-enforcement standing 1. Whether a notice-and-comment violation, on its own, can establish Article III standing for a regulated entity within the applicable zone of interes…
22-708 Gripum, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Seventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied administrative-agencies administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-deference conflicts-of-interest evidentiary-requirements fda-guidance judicial-deference judicial-review regulatory-conflict tobacco-control-act (1) What level of judicial deference, if any, is afforded the determinations of administrative agencies which have a conflict of interest vis-à-vis re…
22-703 American Petroleum Institute, et al. v. Environmental Defense Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action coastal-zone-management-act environmental-assessment final-agency-action oil-and-gas oil-and-gas-permits well-stimulation-treatments 1. Whether a programmatic environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact regarding the hypothetical future approval of permits for oil …
22-6567 Pedro Benitez v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-procedure government-action judicial-review standing (1) When Petitioner's Attorney failed to cite Supreme Court Precedent Deon v United States (20M) in the district Court, did that failure deprive the D…
22-565 USP Holdings, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious judicial-review national-security section-232 tariff-authority trade-expansion-act 1. Did the Federal Circuit err in holding that the Secretary's "final agency action" which determined that imports of steel "threaten to impair the na…
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection With Administrative Procedure Act (APA) jurisdiction, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Boar…
22-351 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious civil-rights due-process inmate-compensation judicial-review standing 1. Whether the Lower Courts ' unconstitutional procedural departure conflicts with the prerequisite demand pursuant several holding of United States…
22-323 Oakbrook Land Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Amici (4) administrative-procedure-act charitable-donations conservation-easement conservation-easements income-tax-deductions judicial-review proceeds-regulation regulatory-process tax-deduction treasury-department Whether Treasury's failure to respond to comments raising concerns about the Proceeds Regulation, 26 C.F.R. § 1.170A-14(g)(6)(ii), violated the Admini…
22-5710 Lisa A. Biron v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accardi-doctrine administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons discretionary-actions judicial-review prisoner-rights regulatory-compliance Are discretionary actions of the federal Bureau of Prisons ("FBOP") — an executive agency responsible for more than 130-thousand prisoners nation wide…
22-5640 Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States Sentencing Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act guideline-commentary judicial-review notice-and-comment sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers u.s-sentencing-commission I. WHETHER THE SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984 COMMANDS CONGRESSIONAL INTENT, THAT WHEN THE U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION VIOLATES THE NOTICE AND COMMENT R…
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award 1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro…
22-1 Lynn Brown, as Appointed Successor and Representative of Now Deceased Howard M. Berry v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, et al. District of Columbia 2022-06-30 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-review civil-procedure deference government-procedure judicial-review military military-deference standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") incorporates a presumption of "unusual deference" in all cases involving the military.
21-1526 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action, as held by the First, Fifth, Ninth, and District of C…
21-1463 Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act anti-commandeering reliance-interests spending-clause statutory-authority tenth-amendment vaccine-mandate 1. Whether the Mandate violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because it is arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful? 2. Whether the Mandate is u…
21-1350 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-sanctions constitution constitutional-precedent free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-review petition precedent strict-scrutiny 1. Whether, in adjudications under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), federal judges are free to flout and knowingly violate (and help administ…
21-7372 Aaron Abadi v. Department of Transportation Second Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion discrimination-laws failure-to-act judicial-review mandamus petition-for-review standing unreasonable-withholding 1) The 2nd and DC Circuits refuse to accept a petition for review for a failure to act. They will only accept it as a writ of mandamus, treating it as…
21-1162 Erika Bailey-Johnson v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act court-of-federal-claims federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tohono-o'odham-nation tohono-precedent united-states-court-of-federal-claims united-states-v-tohono-o'odham-nation Should the Court revisit its holding in Tohono to determine whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 1500, a U.S. District Court action solely for injunctive or dec…
21-1139 Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC Federal Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers May a federal appellate court, consistent with the Administrative Procedure Act and the principles of separation of powers embedded within that Act, r…
21-7007 Amador Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure-act fintiv-factors inter-partes-review patent-act patent-office Question not identified.
21-915 Hugh McKinney v. Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army District of Columbia 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action arbitrary-and-capricious civilian-board deference judicial-review military-records standard-of-review Whether a civilian board's administrative decisions concerning the correction of military records pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 1552(a)(1) are properly revi…
21-819 Baxter Corporation Englewood v. Becton, Dickinson and Company Federal Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act expert-testimony inter-partes-review ordinary-remand-rule patent patent-challenge prior-art remand-rule statutory-interpretation A petitioner may challenge an issued patent in an inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an agency tribunal, but "only on…
21-205 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor ("DOL ") did not submit the full administrative record to the cou…
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption After twice being ordered to and agreeing to do so, the Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) caused intrinsic and extrinsic fraud upon…
20-8194 Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release Did the BOP violate the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of a non…
20-1535 Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson First Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act 1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple…
20-1484 SFPP, L.P. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2021-04-22 Dismissed administrative-procedure-act agency-decision cost-of-service interstate-commerce-act pipeline-rates record-development substantial-evidence Whether a federal agency, upon remand based upon an appellate finding that the agency's outcome is insufficiently supported, complies with the Adminis…
20-7760 John Worthington v. Office of National Drug Control Policy, et al. District of Columbia 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure docket-management final-agency-action level-playing-field local-rule-7b official-capacity summons-and-complaint tort-claim tort-claims trial-court-arguments 1. Whether the trial court erred by failing to apply local rule 7(b), the local "docket management tool", to keep a "level playing field." 2. Whether…
20-1203 Moose Jooce, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2021-03-03 Denied Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act agency agency-law appointments-clause due-process government-action ratification ratification-doctrine rulemaking-authority standing Whether a government official has the power to validate the unauthorized actions of other officials is presumptively determined by the law of agency, …
20-1026 Eagle Trust Fund v. United States Postal Service, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act article-iii executive-action judicial-review non-apa-review postal-reorganization-act usps-rules In two landmark suits against prior Postmasters General, this Court set bedrock principles of judicial review of executive action in equity. Kendall v…
20-934 Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction Whether, in creating the required evidentiary record de novo rather than merely reviewing the agency Record below, the Court of Appeals for the Federa…
20-846 Club One Casino, Inc., dba Club One Casino, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act federal-enclave federal-trust-acquisition indian-commerce-clause indian-reorganization-act land-transfer state-sovereignty tenth-amendment tribal-jurisdiction A Nevada gambling corporation donated a parcel of private California land to the United States to hold in trust for an Indian tribe for an off-reserva…
20-726 In Re Stephanie Michael 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act forum-non-conveniens judicial-review mandamus qualified-immunity res-judicata va-benefits veterans-claims veterans-judicial-review-act 1. Whether agency actions affecting the provision of VA benefits under applicable law may be reviewed by any other official or by any court of compete…
20-562 John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad…
20-539 Oregon, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act healthcare-access medical-ethics patient-provider-communication reproductive-healthcare title-x For fifty years, the federal government has funded family-planning and reproductive healthcare services for low-income and underserved patients throug…
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether, under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), lower courts may disregard, violate or change the plain language of the judicial review pro…
20-296 Christina V. Le v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act breach-of-contract civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-adjudication judicial-review retaliation settlement-agreement title-vii 1. The circuit courts of appeals split on the issue of jurisdiction regarding breach of settlement agreement resolving discrimination charge under Tit…
20-241 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor District of Columbia 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action attorney-client-privilege circuit-court-review foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review rule-60 summary-judgment To oppose release under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") of two emails, an agency asserted FOIA Exemption 4 based on the attorney-client privil…
20-184 Jamel Ellerbee v. Annett Holdings, Inc., dba TMC Transportation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 29-cfr-1987-110-b 49-usc-31105 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act commercial-motor-vehicle due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction transportation Whether statutory construction of 49 U.S.C. §31105 conflicts with judicial review, 29 C.F.R. § 1987.110(b), of the Administrative Procedure Act? Whet…
20-135 Customedia Technologies, LLC v. Dish Network Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived 35-USC-101 Administrative-Procedure-Act Appointments-Clause Due-Process Leahy-Smith-America-Invents-Act patent-eligibility Patent-Eligible-Subject-Matter patent-trial-and-appeals-board ultra-vires 1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c…
19-1194 Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called "Mindes test," or whether claims …
19-1166 Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure consent federal-agency federal-jurisdiction non-federal-entity rule-19 standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an Administrative Procedure Act action challenging a federal agency's compliance with…
19-1090 In Re Bahig F. Bishay 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mandamus standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Against the backdrop of this Court's most recent guidance set forth in Weyerhaeuser Co., — where the Court held, to wit: "The Administrative Procedure…
19-1009 Altera Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (5) administrative-procedure-act arm's-length-standard chevron-deference cost-sharing rulemaking stock-based-compensation tax tax-regulation tax-treaties treasury-department 1. Whether the Treasury Department's regulation is arbitrary and capricious and thus invalid under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 551 et s…
19-930 CIC Services, LLC v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Relisted (2) administrative-agencies administrative-procedure-act anti-injunction-act apa-challenges direct-marketing judicial-review regulatory-mandate regulatory-mandates statutory-interpretation taxes Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars challenges to unlawfu…
19-796 Michael Cowels, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights dna-profile due-process fbi-determination federal-bureau-of-investigation national-dna-index-system pretext pretextual-basis pretextual-determination 1. Whether a determination by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the "FBI") that a DNA profile is ineligible for upload to the National DNA Index Sy…
19-6760 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure-act constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment indictment indictment-modification polygamy polygamy-charge THE INDICTMENT, AND WHETHER THIS CONSTITUTES A DOUBLE JEOPARDY VIOLATION N AS THE GOVERNMENT CAN LATER BRING A NEW CHARGE FOR POLYGAMY.
19-517 Daniel Barbosa, et al. v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-transparency civil-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception express-statement-requirement foia foia-publication-requirements freedom-of-information-act judicial-review mandatory-publication secret-law stafford-act statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether section 5148 bars review of claims that FEMA uses secret law in violation of FOIA's mandatory requirements.
19-454 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act agency-rulemaking conscience-exemption contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate healthcare-mandate nationwide-injunction religious-freedom-restoration-act standing statutory-authority 1. Whether the agencies had statutory authority under the ACA and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., to expand t…
19-396 Charles Simon v. Department of Justice, et al. First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act civil-rights civil-rights-act discriminatory-practices due-process employment first-amendment judicial-review preliminary-injunction standing unlawful-termination 1. Whether the Three Judge Panel's ruling invites judicial review for Petition for Writ of Certiorari where the ruling conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction The Eighth Circuit has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 47(a) and, in so …
19-86 Maria Jordan v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication appellate-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review 1. Whether the Administrative Procedure Act, as applied to Petitioner by the Fifth Circuit, is unconstitutional. 2. Whether, when dismissing a petiti…
19-23 Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company v. Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-regulations agency-rulemaking black-lung-benefits-act burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidentiary-standards regulatory-amendment standing Does requiring a wrongly-named Responsible Operator to issue benefits to a Claimant with normal pulmonary function and normal arterial blood gas testi…
18A1352 Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act chevron-deference criminal-enforcement machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18A1222 Hotze Health & Wellness Center, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action judicial-review regulatory-compliance standing Question not identified.
18-1469 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Casa de Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-discretion deferred-action dhs-policy executive-discretion immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review policy-rescission standing 1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable. 2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.
18-1274 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2019-04-04 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every single requirement o…
18-1223 Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional Is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Title 5 U.S.C. § 706) somehow nonrelevant under Alice/Mayo, or does the Federal Circuit's refusal to addres…
18-1214 Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-18 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act apportionment-clause census-act census-citizenship-question census-data commerce-department commerce-secretary constitutional-authority constitutional-provisions district-court-injunction due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-injunction standing statutory-interpretation voting-rights-act Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census.
18-1192 The Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act constitutional-rights contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate government-mandate government-regulation health-care health-plans healthcare-coverage healthcare-law interim-final-rules national-importance religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-objection standing Since 2011, the federal courts have repeatedly considered whether forcing religious objectors to provide health plans that include contraceptive cover…
18-966 Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Amici (52)Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-decision agency-decision-making census discovery executive-branch standing 1. Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census …
18-795 William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must…
18-722 Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission District of Columbia 2018-12-06 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect…
18-599 Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-315b administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa indemnity-agreements inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab standard-of-review time-bar 1. Did the appellate panel below err by disregarding 5 U.S.C. §706 and instead applying the Federal Circuit's "abuse of discretion" standard of review…
18-588 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. District of Columbia 2018-11-05 Denied Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing 1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable. 2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.
18-587 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca department-of-homeland-security-dhs dhs-policy due-process equal-protection executive-power immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review standing 1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable. 2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.
18-557 Department of Commerce, et al. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act agency-action agency-decisionmaker agency-officials discovery executive-branch executive-discretion judicial-review mandamus mental-processes standing Whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq., a district court may order disc…
18-555 Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever…
18-513 Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority Colorado 2018-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act class-of-one due-process equal-protection exhaustion-doctrine material-facts property-rights Can a governmental agency initiating litigation, by virtue of the exhaustion doctrine, be relieved of its obligation to prove the elements of its clai…
18-505 In Re United States, et al. 2018-10-18 Dismissed administrative-procedure-act article-iii civil-procedure-standing civil-rights climate-change due-process environmental-advocacy justiciability public-trust-doctrine standing 1. Whether this suit is justiciable under Article III. 2. Whether this suit should be dismissed for failure to comply with the requirements of the Ad…
18-461 Raquel Hinojosa, et al. v. Petra Horn, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure-act citizenship-claim due-process immigration judicial-review passport passport-denial rusk-v-cort standing Whether 8 U.S.C. §§1503(b)-(c) preempts judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of the denial or revocation of a passport for a United …
18-277 Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Rehearing Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO This petition presents a conflict between the incentive to invent, as the Constitution provides for, and the breadth of patent-eligible subject matter…
18-190 Queen's University at Kingston v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process enablement inter-partes-review patent-invalidity prior-art Does the Federal Circuit's requirement that patent owners negate enablement of prior art in the first instance invert the statutory burden of proving …